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Welcome to Your IB Coordinator's Wiki

Greetings Everybody -

Please explore this resource. I have created it to make communicating and finding things about the IB easier.

The menu to the right in the light green bar lists the pages I have created so far.

It is definitely a work in progress. I'll be coming to each of you to see what you need from to me make your life better.

I have created 3 other wikis ~

http://risassessment.wikispaces.com/ dedicated to fostering a school-wide learning community with information to support and guide you through the self and assessment process, and well as, over time, becoming a repository for teaching resources;

Plus, 2 for students, but please feel free to visit them too ~

http://riverstonetokcas.wikispaces.com/ dedicated to helping students create an uploadable and sharable TOK & CAS reflection journals. Each student has his or her own Wiki page which you can contribute to. Seach under their class year, and then name.
and
http://risinternational.wikispaces.com / for all things to do with our International student community.

What Is A Wiki?

• A Wiki is simply a web site that many of us can edit. Think of it as a big IB note book at the front desk that we can all add to, get ideas from, make notes to self in. It's a virtual town-crier if you will (the guy in times of yore who ran around shouting out, and gathering in, the news). It allows us all to shout out, and gather in, the news which, in this case, will be specifically related to all things IB.
• "A Wiki enables documents to be authored collectively in a simple markup language using a web browser. "Wiki wiki" means "super fast" in the Hawaiian language, and it is the speed of creating and updating pages that is one of the defining aspects of wiki technology. ...
  www.assessnet.org.uk/mod/glossary/view.php

Why Might It Be Useful?

From the IB Coordinator's stand point I am hoping this will be a god-send. Every week there are new postings coming down from IB-On HIgh that I need to help us all stay on top of. For example, going on to the IBO web site "IB net" today, July 29th 2009, I find the following list of items. I will comb through these articles and post Group 1 updates on the Group 1 page, Group 2 on the Group 2 page - and so forth.
NOTE - the links here are not live. However, I have created a link on the "Online workshops" (below, right column) so you can see how it might work on your Group Page. Try clicking on the Online Workshop link.

May 2009: university entrants questionnaire	IB policy on animal experimentation
November 2009: theory of knowledge pilot for e-marking	Online workshops
November 2009: candidate registration	May 2009 Enquiry upon results: requesting a review of a category 1 re-mark
November 2009 examination stationery	Online workshops
Request for results service	Contacting the IB
2009 Handbook of procedures for the Diploma Programme section 6: forms for theatre	History May 2010 onwards
Signing coversheets	Web sites advertising services
Mathematics SL:tasks	Theory of knowledge prescribed titles for November 2009 and May 2010
“Help” with IB assessment tasks	May and November 2009: form 3/CS for business and management SL
The examination dates for May 2010 and November 2010	Diploma points matrix May 2010 onwards
New Approved Calculator	Self-taught alternative oral examination guide
Subjects affected by the 50 candidate rule	Group 4 experimental sciences: new courses
Geography internal assessment word count: 2007 clarification

So What Can You Do?

Three things --
1. Sign up/join, and bookmark this Wiki;
2. Check it at least weekly, visiting at least the main page and your Group pages;
3. Please share curriculum tips and resources ACROSS THE CURRICULUM - especially TOK and CAS

Need Help?

• Click on the help link above to learn more about how to use your wiki.
• Or, you can resort to old technology and email me at gutting@riverstoneschool.org or call me on 208.861.8416 (personal cell), or 208.473.0055 (school cell)....